We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily: neither is to be done by halves nor shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all.

I made the time to finally assemble the laser cut row house. Here are two photos of the assembled building. I think it is a little out of scale for 15mm, but am hopeful it will be useful.

I learned much in assembling these buildings.

I need to increase the laser power a small amount so as to ensure that each edge is cut all the way through.

The 1/16" chipboard is a good material choice, but like all cardboard it tends to warp. To mitigate this, I will add internal structure the next time. More specifically, a hollow rectangular plate around the inside, top of the walls.

The method of creating stone work around the windows is too fussy. The next time I will cut it out from 1/32" card and glue around the window opening.

A better method of aligning the floors is needed. The improvised teeth I cut work, but are ugly.

I improvised a number of jigs to aid assembling the house. I will include these to be cut alongside the house parts the next time.

Many thanks to Shawn Wallace who helped me complete my introduction to using AS220 Lab's Epilog laser cutter this afternoon. I was able to cut 8 building of two different designs on 12" square, 1/16" thick chipboard. Next step is to assemble them to see how accurate mine and SketchUp's measurements are. To be fair, however, the conversion pipeline between the SketchUp drawing on my MacBook and final output to the cutter is very long -- SketchUp to PDF to iDraw to PDF to Corel Draw to Epilog driver to Epilog hardware.